Rules for continuation lines

You can continue the operand field of a macro on one or more additional lines as follows:

1. Enter a continuation character (not blank, and not part of the operand coding) in column 72 of the line.
2. Continue the operand field on the next line, starting in column 16. All columns to the left of column 16 must be blank. Comments may be continued after column 16.

Note that if column 72 is filled in on one line and you try to continue an operand or start a new statement after column 16 on the next line, this statement will be taken as a comment belonging to the previous statement.

You can code the operand field that is being continued in one of two ways: 1) Code the operand field through column 71, with no blanks, and continue in column 16 of the next line; or 2) truncate the operand field by a comma, where a comma normally falls, with at least one blank before column 71, and then continue in column 16 of the next line. Figure 1 shows an example of each method.

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Name         Operation    Operands       Comments
1            10           16             41                                72
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NAME1        OP1          OPERAND1,OPERAND2,OPERAND3,OPERAND4,OPERAND5,OPERAND6,OPEX
                          RAND7            THIS IS METHOD 1









NAME2        OP2          OPERAND1,        THIS IS METHOD 2                 X
                          OPERAND2,
                          OPERAND3,
                          OPERAND4,
                          OPERAND5,
                          OPERAND6

NAME3        OP3          OPERAND1,        THIS IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE          X
                          OPERAND2,        OF METHOD 2
                          OPERAND3